Wedding Photos
We do a serious amount of weddings, so we're getting kinda good at it. Our specialty is outdoor, informal weddings, but we're not half bad at doing traditional church weddings either. If you're doing an outdoor wedding we'll be paying a lot of attention to getting candid shots. For formal weddings we'd like to take a little time to set up our lights and take more structured shots of the wedding party. Either way, we listen to what YOU want, and we do our best do give you photos you can show with pride – "This is our wedding." (Oh yeah, we do engagement photos too!)
Prices start at just $1,250. That gets you two photographers for the whole day.
When we're finished, we'll do the post-production editing, then we'll give you all the pictures on a disk. You can then get as many as you wish processed at the vendor of your choice, share 'em on Facebook, whatever you wish. You own the photos, so there are no restrictions. (Many photographers make you buy "packages," we don't do that. We figure you're the best one to choose which photos you want to have printed, and you know how many you need, so we let you have that control. Neato!)
If you wish to see more samples, just e-mail me and I'll send a few on to you!
The Process…
Generally we meet with you a few months before the wedding to find out what you want done. The day of the wedding my wife Dagmar (an unusual name for an unusual lady - she's originally from Innsbruck, Austria) and I can be there as early as you'd like us to be. Some folk wish to have photos of the bride and bridesmaids as they get ready, others don't. Usually we do the "formal" photos prior to the wedding ceremony. Again, depending on how large the wedding party and how many family photos you'd like, we generally like to start at least two hours (preferably more) before the ceremony - it always takes more time than one would think, and we like to leave at least half an hour before the ceremony open for the bride and groom to relax.
During the ceremony itself Dagmar and I will split up so each of us is in position to get the critical shots (the unity candle or sand ceremony, exchange of rings, etc.). We always speak with the officiant prior to the ceremony to make sure we're aware of any rules that may be in place – some ministers don't want flash photography (which we rarely do anyway as it's distracting), others have rules or preferences on where photographers can stand or move.
After the ceremony we'll tag along to the reception, get photos of the decorations, toasts, first dance – whatever interesting things happen, we'll try to get photos! Some people want us to be there the full day, others just want us to get a few formal photos and the wedding itself and nothing else. We're flexible – whatever y'all want, we can do!
Once the dust settles and the happy couple rides off into the sunset to do whatever newlywed couples do, Dagmar and I start in on the real work. We'll transfer the photos from our memory chips to my computer, then Dagmar will go through them to delete the bad shots, duplicates, etc. (often times the reception hall will be dimly lit, so many of those photos are blurry or dark). Once she's done, I'll go through the remaining pics to do the color correction, cropping, minor airbrushing, and all that good stuff. We usually end up with somewhere between 600 and 1000 photos when it's all said and done (we generally take around 1500 photos, but many of them will be duplicates that we delete - I tend to take five, six, seven quick shots of each pose in order to ensure at least one shot with everyone's eyes open)... We'll put the pictures on a set of CDs for you (or more often a data DVD) which you can then take to the vendor of your choice to get whatever prints made at whatever size you want! (Most photographers charge quite a bit more than we do, then they only let you see the best few photos, and make you pay them to get prints made - instead we charge a bit less, give you all the photos, and you have the freedom to choose and use any of the photos any way you see fit.)
